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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 542,040, dated July 2, 1895.

v s Application filed July 17,1893. Serial No. 480,777.` (No model.)

To coZZ' whom it may concern:

' Be it known thatI, MELBOURNE C. BURR, of the city of Minneapolis, county of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, have invented certain `new and useful Improvements in Collapsible Clothes-Reels, ofwhich the following is a specification. s

My invention relates to a clothes reel adapted to be elevated after the clothes have been placed upon thedistended ropes thereof. The object of the invention is to provide a i folding and elevating clothes-reel of a very cheap and durable'oonstruction and which" may be operated with far greater ease than those which have been hithertodevised.

To this end myinvention `consists in constructions and combinations hereinafter de-` scribed and particularly pointed'out in the claim, and Will be more readily understood" by reference to the accompanying drawings, in whichv f l s Figurel is a vertical elevation showinga clothes-reel embodying my invention,wthe same being partially elevated and portions of the post or standard being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a `sectional view on `the line :o of F1g.1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged View showing the reel proper collapsed. Fig. Ltis an enlarged view showing the casting employed at the upper end of the reelshaft.

As shown in the drawings, the square stand` ard or post is made up of the side pieces 2, se,- cured at the top bythe cross-boards 3 and 't` and the wooden cap-piece `5. The lower ends of the parts 2 are connected by the block 6, having the hole 7 for a bolt 8, adapted to fasten the cross-planks 9 and l0, or the bolt may be driven into the top of a post placed in the ground. The cap-piece 5 hasa square hole to accommodate the square elevating-bar made up ofthe two-pieces 11 and 12, nailed of the bar.

together. A long slot 13 ismade betweenthe` two pieces of the bar and each has arecess 14: to form a socket for the vertical shaft 15. One side of the slot is open to thetop fot' the bar and permits the insertion of the pin 16, having the wing 17,'Whichprevents Vthe re- Inoval of the key after it is placed in position and the iron cap 18, secured upon the top A number of wire nails 19 are driven through from side to side of the bar fboard 3. 23, by turning which the bar` maybe raised and across the slot` 13 and, being placed atl regulardistances, forma rack tobe engaged by the round toothed pinion 20. This `pinion `is secured upon the Winged shaft 2l, the ends of which have bearings in slots provided in. the pieces 2 and arefastened therein by the Theshaft is provided with the crank or lowered.

be raised `when it is desired to free the pinion and drop the bar.` The lowerend of the bar is provided with an `iron cross-.piece 27, the ends of vwhich extend into the vertical slots 28, provided in theinner sides of the planks orsides2.

`The reel or clothes-rack proper consists of a number oflong arms 28', having their inner ends pivoted in a spider-bloc'k29, slidably arranged upon theshaft 15. The form of this bloc-his shown best in Fig. 4, Where it: will be seen that the slotsgtherein are formed integrally, so that the bars present their sides to the shaft when in position of Fig. 3. `Upon the upper end ofthe sha-ftl Ifasten a similar spider-blocker casting 30, from which sup-` porting-links 31 extend to pivotal connections on the arms `28. The arms 28" have a num- "berof holes," throughwhich the ropes or cords 32 are threaded and supportedfTheshaft 15 beinginserted in the top of` the ;bar the -weightfof thearlns 28 will cause theml tofall"V out and thereel will be `supported bythe block 29, resting upon the cap `18 of the'ban `The bar and reel may be lowered to facilitate the placing of the clothes upon the line, after s which the bar may be raised to elevate the vreel and carry the clothes above possible con! tact.with the ground. To remove the reel proper, itis only `necessary to push the pin 16 in under the end of the shaft after the bar has been raised to s thefull height and then lower the barjll, as shown in Fig. 3, the shaft being `held up.` Thenebydrawing down upon the block 29 the arms may bethrown up` and the whole reel lifted out ot' thesocket in the barllp` p HI l l Ico 63 s 24 represents a ratchet-pawl having the l By the employment of the loose block 29' the ropes 32 may expand or contract without breaking the arms 28, as the block 29 will' simply shift its position upon the shaft..

Having thus described my invention, I

. claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, with a clothes reel, of a post, a rack bararranged therein, a gear and Crank for raising or lowering said rack bar,

said rack bar being provided with a vertical shaft socket, a shaft', the arms upon the upper end thereof, said bar having a vertical slot MELBOURNE C. BURR.

In presence of C. G. IIAWLEY, M. E. GooLEY. 

